'Cause I'm Me

Hook, Line and Sinker!!

2012-01-26T16:17:00.003+10:00

This is a birthday card for my Dad. He's a fisherman and has been since he was small. Now that he's retired from the cane farm he's often out fishing. We get the benefits from these trips. lol

I had the idea in my head using the papers from My Mind's Eye Breeze because the colours reminded me of the water but it needed that bit of something....so I rang him up and asked if he had an old prawn net that I could cut a piece from and also at the same time I snaffled the hook, line, swivel and sinker. The map of Australia I thought was appropriate because he's always checking the weather before he goes fishing. This was from a piece of Kaiser dp. The piece of hessian is there because years ago when we went fishing, the inevitable hessian bag was used to put the fish in then dragged through the water to keep it all wet and fresh.

The card stock is Core'dinations which I've distressed. The dark brown pieces are from the My Mind's Eye Core'dinations card stock pad. The distress look of the papers, card stock seemed to suit the type of card I wanted to make. The main panel has been swiped with Shabby Shutters distress ink.

I've added Crystal Effects to the net, line and hook to represent water droplets.

I did have to doctor the hook a bit because it 'got' me while I was tying the line to it. Damn thing. The fish is covered in Rock Candy distress stickles, just to show that he's fresh. The stamp is a fabulous one by PSX that I purchased on Ebay last year.

We are off out to tea tonight for Dad's birthday....Australia Day.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Merry Monday Challenge Three!!

2012-01-21T08:36:00.002+10:00

This is my card for the Merry Monday Challenge 3 this week. I took a leaf out of Becca Feeken's book and embossed this image in a cream embossing powder on vanilla card stock. Then with my applique mat and ink blending tool I inked Wild Honey distress ink over the whole image, then cleaned off the ink from the embossing. I'm really pleased with the result.

Becca had one of her patent bows on the top of her ornament and I liked the way it looked.

I combined my ornament with Kaisercraft's dp December 25th. The gold in the dp picks up the colour of the ornament. Always artichoke is a fabulous colour for these papers and the base card is Naturals ivory. The red is some Bazzill that I had and I'm sorry I don't know the name of it. I couldn't find a good match with my Stampin Up card stock. The vintage button on top of the seam binding bow is a Webster's Pages button. Love these things. lol

Thank you for visiting my blog and hope you all have a wonderful day.

Country Life!!

2012-01-20T06:50:00.001+10:00

These cards made using Stamp It's Country Life 9ups are often requested for male cards and are extremely popular with the recipients. If you want the link for these 9ups, please email me.
For these two cards I used a Sketch Saturday week 188 sketch very loosely followed I admit but I had to accommodate my image.
The papers are current Stampin Up called Mocha Morning Specialty and are great with these 9up images. Lots of stripes, patterns and manly colours. I used one of my new nesties for the greetings. A final touch of wide striped grosgrain ribbon with twine and a button finished them off.
The ladies who ordered these are stoked with them.

Thanks for visiting today and stay cool or warm as the case may be!!!

Authentique Uncommon Case.

2012-01-18T09:22:00.000+10:00

I saw this card on Andrea Ewen's blog and absolutely loved it. I just had to case it. Thank you Andrea. Nowadays I'm tending to make two cards to keep my supply up. I've changed the trims to lace and braid with different leaves and more of them. The flowers and silver cord are the same as what Andrea used. I really like the tag punch I used which is one I bought on sale at Robyn and Sue's shop before they closed down. The leaves are the Stampin Up sizzlet die which I've used many, many times. What a good investment that little die has been.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Card Patterns Sketch 148

2012-01-17T15:51:00.000+10:00

I was lying in bed last night designing this card in my head after I saw the Card Patterns sketch. So this morning I had to sit down and make it. I'm absolutely stoked with the way this has turned out.

The card stock colours are vanilla, Going Grey (retired), Riding Hood Red. I also added lots of lace, velvet ribbon and a Websters vintage button with a black pearl in the centre. The round panel is inked with Groovy Guava and layered on a scalloped nestie circle. I felt the black leaves and black tipped corsage pin just added that bit of something to the card. Prima flowers and black pearls finished it all off.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Mojo Monday Challenge 222

2012-01-16T18:47:00.000+10:00

I was looking through my collection of sketches and found this Mojo Monday 222 sketch which was perfect for the Authentique Uncommon dp that I hadn't touched. Do you believe that I was saving it??? lol I used a few different nesties on these cards. Riding Hood Red and black are a fabulous match for these papers. I must admit, that pennant cuts are not my favourite thing to do. The ends don't seem to work out evenly. I think these will pass with a push. Pearls, prima flowers and some black leaf trimming finished them off.

It was overcast today but not raining. When Dean was home, he and I had a clean out of his cupboards, consequently there is a mountain of washing waiting in the laundry for the first sunny day. Linen etc that I want to freshen up before being put away again.

Thanks for visiting my blog and hope everyone is well.

Beautiful Chanteuse!!

2012-01-15T09:05:00.000+10:00

Thursday was a very productive day for me. I finished four cards!!! This is one of them. I used Kaisercraft's Chanteuse dp. It's gorgeous. The sketch is similar to many cards that I've made, Sharon cards, Jean and I call them. Sharon makes these cards which are stunning and very simple with gorgeous embellishments. Thanks Sharon.

The greeting has been stamped twice, with just a smidgen of movement to make it stand out a touch more. Card stock is Stampin Up and the greeting panel is from the 6 x 6 paper pad.

Thanks for visiting my blog and taking the time to comment. Very much appreciated.

It's still raining here, not as much as it was but with light showers. I do hope to do some more card making today...I have several orders to fill. Also hope to crumb the steak I bought on Friday so a busy day ahead for me.
Take care everyone.

Prima Botanical Sympathy cards

2012-01-14T09:07:00.002+10:00

I needed a sympathy card so I cased Sharon's card but added layers and inked the nesties labels. I hope she takes it as a compliment. I did put a different sentiment on one of them. I've kept the other one in my supply of cards because unfortunately just lately I seem to need sympathy cards.

Baja breeze went perfectly with these particular papers from the Prima Botanical collection.

The weather broke and it's been raining for the past day and a half. We needed it though. Looks like there is more on the way. Don't mind the rain so long as there isn't any cyclones to go with it. lol
My son is coming to visit me this morning before he goes back to Toowoomba this afternoon on the plane. I hope to get a card done for the Merry Monday challenge today as well.
Thanks for visiting.

Beau Chateau Doily

2012-01-12T16:01:00.000+10:00

I've had this card in the making for some months. I just couldn't get it finished. Today I was determined that it had to be done. The seam binding is hand dyed and the doily stamp has been embossed with ink sponged over the top. I cut the top layer of the butterfly out of the same embossed piece of card stock. The dsp is Beau Chateau. A pearl flourish and a sentiment finished it off. I hope it looks ok, I'm still not too sure about it.

We've had thunder here most of the afternoon, but the storm isn't here..over the mountains a bit. Definitely the weather will break soon because it's been so very hot.

I have been making some other cards and I'll put those up tomorrow. Off to start on the kitchen so I can get some tea ready.

Thanks for visiting today.

Merry Monday Challenge One

2012-01-08T12:20:00.001+10:00

I think Lesley's idea of a weekly Christmas challenge is a fabulous one so I've joined in. I've made two cards exactly the same except for the greeting. This way I, hopefully, should have many Christmas cards by the time the end of the year comes along.

I used an idea of Beeka Feeken's and layered some nesties. Instead of the punched border, I decided that the lace looked better on my card. The pennant nestie used for the greeting is one of my new toys. The finishing touch was adding pearls on my layered nesties. Hope you like my cards.

This is a quick post because I'm off to work at the Tourist Centre.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Red Hat Birthday.

2012-01-03T07:24:00.004+10:00

A friend of mine, who is a member of the Red Hats here in this area, asked me to make her a Red Hat birthday card to send to another Red Hat lady. So here is the result. I actually made this card twice, well nearly anyway. Three quarters of the way through the first one, I decided it wasn't right and it went in the bin. I salvaged a few bits, the image and the two nesties and used them for the second effort of which I'm quite proud.

Now for details...the image is a digi by Priscilla Heaton which fitted the bill perfectly. If you would like the link please email me. I then coloured it with copics..I still need a lot of practice in this area. I cut a mask and then air brushed, yes that's right, air brushed the background with my copics to take away the starkness of the white background. I paper pieced the mannequin's head and very slightly moulded the hat and 3d'd it onto the base image to give it a touch of dimension. I think I managed to get it just right. The flower and feathers finished off the hat. I was really pleased to find the exact colour feathers in my stash. The sketch is based very loosely on a Mojo Monday one...185. To add a bit more texture I embossed the purple panel and also added the white lace. A greeting and silk ribbon finished it off. I hope my friend likes it.

Enjoy this very sunny hot Tuesday everyone.

Stay safe!!

Nature Walk Meets Springtime Vintage

2011-12-31T18:33:00.000+10:00

This card is for a friend who ordered it for her daughter's birthday. I must say that I really enjoyed making it. I cased it from a card I saw on a blog months ago...sorry can't remember who now. I used the same sketch and elements but beefed up the embellishments. It's a card I would make again using different papers and colours.

Yesterday was spent cleaning my craft table and putting things away. I can now see the table with plenty of space to work. Long may it last. One of my New Year resolutions is to keep things tidy. My OH has gone to bed....he starts work at midnight.

Happy New Year to you all and take care wherever you are.

Midnight Frost Christmas Cards

2011-12-27T08:46:00.001+10:00

Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year to everyone.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas day. Christmas Eve was spent by me preparing as much of the food as possible for Christmas Day. Christmas Day morning, I started the roast pork early, then put the chickens on. Cooked those, then started on the cauliflower/broccoli au gratin and potato bake.

The pudding then had to be steamed and the other vegies to cook. A very busy morning, but it was worth it. Everyone had a wonderful meal and had no need to eat tea that night. rofl

The rest of year here is shaping up to be extremely hot and muggy so we'll see how much rain we get in the next few days.

These are six more Christmas cards that I made this year. I saw this card by Jocelyn

and loved it. These are my versions. The same sketch but I've embossed in Pewter, used different greetings, added an extra card stock layer and used different dp. I punched a couple of the white strips and liked the effect. I loved this paper pad when it came out last year and was very tempted to purchase some more....but I'm quite sure there will be something similar released by this time next year, so will be sensible. lol

Tomorrow is work for me...just a mail run but have to do a full day at the Post Office on Thursday.

Enjoy your day everyone and thanks for visiting.

Music Christmas Cards

2011-12-24T09:15:00.001+10:00

I saw on Carla Suto's blog these Heartfelt Creations stamps used in conjunction with the matching nesties and just loved the concept.

I then saw on another blog the idea of using flourishes and poinsettias as embellishments. I can't remember whose blog...sorry.

I was very happy with the way these cards turned out and the recipients have loved them.

Thanks for visiting today.

Yes, I've been missing in action....BUT....all my Christmas cards were done and sent two weeks ago. Christmas presents posted two weeks ago. Christmas lollies....rum balls, apricot balls, rocky road, Russian caramel and coconut ice all made last Tuesday with some extra batches of rum balls and apricot balls finished yesterday.
Local gifts all delivered, last one done yesterday morning.
All the grocery shopping is done.

The rest of the presents are bought and just have to be wrapped today. I run the vacuum cleaner over the floors this afternoon then that will be done too.

The trifle is to be made today and I'll do the stuffing for the chickens. Then on to preparing my cauliflower/broccoli dish and potato bake, all ready for cooking tomorrow.

My problem is I have run out of fridge room so it'll be out to the shed with the extras. lol

Have a wonderfully productive Christmas Eve everyone.

Gabrielle Engagement Card

2011-11-24T12:35:00.001+10:00

A friend of mine asked me to make her an engagement card. So I used the pretty Bo Bunny Gabrielle papers and a sketch from Mojo Monday. I'm so happy with the way this card has turned out. Card stock used is the matching Bo Bunny card stock. Embellishments are some Prima roses with lace and braid. The oval around the sentiment is the one of the Designer Frames Embossing Folders from Stampin Up. The sentiment is from Flourishes and fits perfectly into the extra large oval punch by Stampin Up. Pearls around the Lacey Circle finished the card off.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Roses and Tea

2011-10-31T15:52:00.000+10:00

This is what I've been working on while I've been missing in action. A couple of months ago, one of the ladies in our little craft group showed Judi, Jan and I this gorgeous Block of the Month quilt called Roses and Tea. We all liked it so much that we are now doing it too. Each block has a panel that has to be stitched (fancywork), then the fabric pieces are joined to make the block. This is the first block. Unfortunately I had traced and started stitching by the time I realised the rectangle wasn't squared properly. I think by the time it's been quilted, this won't be noticeable. Stitching is a welcome change from my cardmaking. I felt I was a bit stale and instead of being inspired every day to make cards, my inspiration was very spasmodic indeed. In the next week I hope to get as much stitching done as I can then back into my cards. Supplies at the Tourist Centre are low and Christmas cards are now in demand. lol Unbelievable how fast this year has gone. No doubt everyone says that every year. lol

Enjoy your afternoon and thanks for visiting my blog.

Sunny Challenges 012/11 Sketch and Flowers

2011-10-22T13:45:00.000+10:00

Thank you so much to the girls of the Sunny Challenges. I made the Ray Of Sunshine award this week with this card. It's grown on me somewhat and I quite like the non traditional colours for Christmas. It would be so wonderful if there were a few more entries. It's a fabulous challenge..once a week.

The Sunny Challenge this week is a sketch and flowers, flowers, flowers. So this is my card for this challenge. You know how you start a card with an idea then it takes a completely different direction...well this is what happened here. The end result is totally different from what I envisaged..BUT I love it!!! lol

The colour combination came from the Colour Coach which is such an invaluable tool. I used Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight and for a highlight..Pool Party. This is the first time I had used my Field Flowers set and a very, very long time since I had done two step stamping but it all came together so well. I did have to stamp my image panel twice because, silly me, stamped the little flowers upside down!!! The centres of the flowers have been coloured with a Daffodil Delight marker. I think the rest is self explanatory.

In amongst making cards, I'm stitching and making a Block of the Month quilt. I'm also trying to practice my colouring techniques with my copics. My new toy arrived on Friday...an air compressor! I love it but I do need to practice with it as well. lol

My Chiropractor visits continue, once a week now and I'm feeling so much better. Thank goodness. Now at least I can keep up with my father when we both go walking. While I wasn't well, I was dragging the chain a bit, it looked a bit like Brown's cows with me in the rear. rofl

Thanks for visiting my blog and hope you enjoy the rest of the afternoon.

Sunny Challenges 011/11 Season of Joy

2011-10-14T13:30:00.001+10:00

Thankfully I'm feeling a lot better today. So much so, that some of my mojo has come back I think. Well we'll see anyway. lol

This week on Sunny Challenges and Creations we are provided with a sketch and have to use the stamp set Season of Joy. Yikes....this set hasn't seen daylight for some time.

I haven't used traditional colours of red and green because I wanted to try something different. I'm in two minds about this card. In the course of my blog surfing, I've seen the dsp Domestic Goddess used for Christmas cards so I thought..why not?

Here is the result. Colours used are Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Pool Party and Whisper White. The ribbon is white satin together with a layer of Daffodil Delight narrow taffeta. The bells are so cute and are attached using some retired silver cord. The image panel has been embossed with Pewter embossing powder which is just yummy. The Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder was perfect, matching the flowers in the image.

All products are Stampin' Up.

Hope you like my attempt at a contemporary Christmas card and thanks for visiting.

M4M Copic Colour Conference 2011

2011-10-13T09:04:00.000+10:00

Here are some photos I took of all of us attending the Mad For Markers first Copic Colour Conference in Sydney on the weekend. It was a wonderful weekend and we all had a fabulous time.

Now to put it all into practise. lol

All set for next year.

Unfortunately I haven't been well this week, so not a lot done, unless you count two more trips to the Chiropractor.

I did receive a big SU order so lots of stash to play with as well as the new copics I purchased in Sydney.

Thanks for visiting and I'm hoping I'll get something coloured or even a full card made today.

Sunny Challenges 010/11 Animals, Fish, Birds, Bugs or Insects

2011-10-03T14:30:00.002+10:00

I'm getting in early this week with my entry for the Sunny Challenges. We had to use a sketch combined with animals, fish, birds, bugs or insects. I chose this stamp from the For Father set. I think it was in a mini at some time. I thought it would combine beautifully with the Well Worn dsp. The ribbon is retired River Rock tied in a knot with three Cajun Craze brads to balance the card.

The colours I used were Early Espresso, River Rock, Not Quite Navy, Cajun Craze and Naturals Ivory. I didn't add a greeting because I felt this card could be used for either male or female.

Thanks for visiting and hope you like my card.

Sunny Challenges 009/11 Heat Embossing

2011-10-01T16:26:00.005+10:00

I spent this afternoon making my card for this week's Sunny Challenges which is a sketch combined with heat embossing.

I used the flourish out of Elements of Style to clear emboss my Marina Mist layer adding the components of the sketch on to this. The new Stitched Stocking set from SU is fabulous to use. To some it may be a bit fiddly to add the toes and heels but it's definitely worth the effort. My stockings wouldn't fit on an A5 card so I made mine square but kept to the sketch. The colours used are Whisper White, Garden Green, Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler and Early Espresso. A gorgeous combination. The panel with the stockings hanging from it represents a piece of timber.

I had this card in my head when I started and I'm pleased to say it's turned out exactly as I envisaged.

Thanks so much to the Friday Mashup girls...I made one of this week's Mashup Glamettes with my Time card. Pretty exciting.

My Chiropractor visits continue and I think some good is being done. I'm back to my walking in the mornings..slowly...but it's a start.

Hope everyone is well and thanks for visiting my blog.

Square And Manly Friday Mash Up

2011-09-29T15:47:00.000+10:00

Well finally I've made a card. Just lately because I haven't felt well, my mojo has deserted me. I've had a number of visits to the Chiropractor with more to come and hopefully it is doing me some good. It's certainly costing enough!!!

I started a card for The Friday Mash Up challenge using The Open Sea by SU but it just wouldn't work. So I decided on a whole new direction. Once I found these papers in my stash which hadn't been used yet, the whole card came together really well. The sketch is a good one and very suitable for a male card. I embellished my oval with buttons and vintage brads. The red is SU Cherry Cobbler and by introducing it, picks up the red in the rims of the watches. For some reason the quilted ribbon looked just right and added a bit of texture.

Thanks for visiting today and hope everyone is well.

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #2

2011-09-17T16:17:00.000+10:00

I made this card for this week's Freshly Made Sketches Challenge. I had seen a card somewhere using the Notably Ornate set combined with the retired Love Letter dsp and I liked the combination. I'm sorry I can't remember where now. I fussy cut around the stamped image then layered it onto Riding Hood Red and Black. Unfortunately I don't own the Language of Friendship stamp set so I substituted Punch Potpourri (retired) for the flowers. The greeting is from Occasional Quotes (retired). Leaves, lace and pearls completed my card.

I have been missing a little while....haven't been well but am hoping to be on the mend after seeing the doctor on Monday.

Enjoy the rest of the day everyone.

Sunny Challenges 006/11 Wheels

2011-09-08T15:52:00.002+10:00

This week on Sunny Challenges and Creations the girls want us to combine a sketch with a wheel. Mmmmm well, I freely admit that I have plenty of wheels/rollagraphs but very rarely use them. Jean and I looked through our wheels and discovered that in actual fact we both have very few current SU wheels. Lots retired and of course the rollagraphs which aren't eligible being a different brand. So after discussion together..lol..I decided to use Soft Holly. Jean decided to use Music Notes, but that may have changed by now. rofl

I have once again used Deck the Halls dsp which is retired combined with the bauble out of Tags til Christmas. I used Heat and Stick with Cherry Cobbler ink and Diamonds glitter on the bauble. I then fussy cut round it and added the ribbon. The greeting is from a retired set called Bells and Boughs.

Unfortunately today was not a cardmaking day because it's tax time. Charlie and I spent the morning in Mackay seeing the Accountant. I came home with a bad headache and have spent the afternoon having a sleep. Perhaps tomorrow may be a better day for playing. Hopefully my order from the new catalogue just may turn up. It will be a week tomorrow since it was sent.

OK off to have a look at everyone's creations.

Take care.

A La Card Monkey Challenge 72....Christmas

2011-09-07T15:33:00.002+10:00

This is my card for this week's A La Card Monkey Challenge which is a sketch plus the theme of Christmas. The stamp set is retired SU Scandinavian Season. I used SU Deck the Halls dsp which is also retired. I stamped the images in ink combined with heat and stick powder sprinkled with glitter.

Unfortunately the glitter doesn't show up very well in the photo. The sketch was originally A5 portrait but I've made it into a square card so as to give me more room to add my different elements.

Once again thank you for all the wonderful comments that are being left on my blog. Very much appreciated.
Edited to add A La Card Monkey's link. Sorry girls, I thought I had done it.

Three in One!!!

2011-09-06T13:54:00.001+10:00

Here is my latest card using the colours in this week's Create With Connie and Mary challenge. I combined this challenge with 4 Crafty Chicks and The Paper Players challenges for this week.

I'm hoping I have the balance of these strong colours right for my card. The flourishes I made using Stampin' Up pearls. The flower out of Happiness Shared is water coloured using markers. I'm afraid that my water colouring isn't the best it could be, but after trying twice, I decided this was the best attempt. That must mean the others were pretty bad hey? rofl

Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments that are left on my blog. I love them all.

Have a wonderful afternoon.

Sunny Challenges 005/11 Marina Mist

2011-09-02T13:52:00.001+10:00

This week on the Sunny Challenges blog, we had to use a sketch and also Marina Mist had to be somewhere on the card. Well this is what I've come up with. I'm quite fond of the Beau Chateau dsp and as you know, I love ribbon and bows. So I combined them all. lol

The butterfly is from the stamp set Creative Elements which I think is a beautiful set.

I'm hoping to get back into my cards....for some reason, haven't been able to settle down to them this week. Here's hoping this a temporary thing.

Hope you all have a wonderful afternoon.

Thanks for visiting.

Little Girls Like Pink!

2011-08-28T15:04:00.000+10:00

Well maybe not all little girls but the one this card is for certainly does and also butterflies. The sketch is this week's The Sweet Stop Sketch #123. The reason for the 3d Sarah Kay image is simple....I was challenged by a UK friend of mine to use a 3d or peel off (out of my very neglected/not used anymore stash) with my Stampin' Up stash. I selected the lesser evil, the 3d image. I have hundreds of peel offs which I very rarely use...they are just sitting in the cupboard. The same goes for all the 3d's I have...all just sitting in the cupboard.

Fortunately, Blushing Bride goes beautifully with this pretty little Sarah Kay 3d. My colour coach indicated that Early Espresso and Pear Pizazz were a good choice with Blushing Bride so I included them both.

Mmmmm that is dsp that I've used but you can't see the little dots very well in photo. Pity because I chose it specifically to go with the little girl's dress. The flowers are out of my stash and fits another challenge the same friend issued....to use fabric/paper flowers on a card. So I've met both challenges.

Thanks Kerrie. I hope I've passed with flying colours!!! lol

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with another card....stamping etc this time. rofl

I hope all our US friends are safe or trying to keep safe. Thinking of you all.

Enjoy your afternoon everyone. I'm off to make some Melting Moments.

A La Card Monkey Challenge 71...All About Autumn

2011-08-27T15:13:00.001+10:00

This week I'm one of the guest designers on A La Card Monkey challenge blog. My challenge was to make a card following this sketch with the theme of Autumn.

Well here is my card! I used three stamp sets on the image panel....Lovely as a Tree, French Foliage and Autumn Days. The colours are Baja Breeze, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso and River Rock.

I hope you like my card and please join the challenge.

I've been missing in action for the last couple of days working so there haven't been any cards made at all. Hope to get back into it tomorrow (Sunday).

Have a wonderful afternoon everyone.

I'm a Princess!!

2011-08-20T17:41:00.000+10:00

Wow, I've been chosen as The Monkey Princess for this week over on A La Card Monkey with this card.

I really enjoyed making this card. Thanks to the ladies over on A La Card Monkey and thanks to Jean for challenging me to enter.

A La Card Monkey Challenge 69

2011-08-19T14:48:00.000+10:00

It was Jean's turn this time to get me to do a challenge. This is the card I've made for the A La Card Monkey challenge for this week which is a Sympathy or Thinking of You card using the sketch provided. I really do like this Springtime Vintage dsp and I feel the Strength and Hope set goes very well with it.
Hope you like my card.

Enjoy the rest of your day everyone.

Mojo Monday Challenge 204

2011-08-18T17:24:00.001+10:00

This is my card for the Mojo Monday Challenge this week. I said to Jean that we should try this sketch and once again our cards are completely different. lol Jean's card is on her blog. At first this card gave me quite a bit of grief, yes, I know hard to believe when it's so simple but what I wanted to put in the middle just wouldn't work. So this is what I ended up with. I feel quite happy about this card now where as before I stamped on the twill and just used the world circle as the centre, it was going in the bin.

My Dad loves fishing and boats so this card is for him on the 4th September, our Father's Day here in Australia.

Hope everyone has had a fabulous day. Thanks for visiting my blog.

Create With Connie and Mary Challenge 162

2011-08-17T12:05:00.001+10:00

Here is my card for the Create with Connie and Mary challenge this week. I received my Convention Bundle last week and so I used the gorgeous new dsp Beau Château. The stamp set is Elements of Style and the greeting is from Bring on the Cake. I also used some of the fabric which was included in the bundle.

Thanks for visiting my blog and hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Ray Of Sunshine!!

2011-08-16T10:08:00.000+10:00

Woo Hoo, I've been chosen as the Ray of Sunshine for challenge 002/11. I do get so excited if any of my cards get chosen for a challenge winner....gives one a real boost. lol

Thanks so much to the ladies over at Sunny Challenges and Creations.

Sketchbook Saturday Challenge & 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge.

2011-08-16T09:04:00.001+10:00

On Sunday Jean and I challenged each other to make a card using the same sketch, in this case Iwona's Sketchbook Saturday sketch.

I also decided to enter the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge #50 for this week which is to use twine on our creation somewhere. I was entering these fantastic challenges quite a bit until the last couple of months when my mojo ran out on me. rofl

So this is my card. It's certainly different from Jean's. lol

I used the Open Sea stamp set with the dsp called Nautical Expedition which are both totally gorgeous.

I have attempted to create the illusion of rigging on a ship with the Baker's Twine on my card. For the greeting I loved the flag effect which I thought fitted the theme of ships, boats and ocean quite well.

Thanks for visiting my blog and make sure you hop on over to Jean's blog to check out her creation.

Sunny Challenges 003/11 Fox and Friends

2011-08-14T14:21:00.003+10:00

This week on Sunny Challenges & Creations blog, the challenge is to use Fox and Friends stamp set in conjunction with the sketch that Vicky has made.

Well here is my attempt at this challenge. I was hoping for a window effect but not sure whether I've succeeded in this or not. The dsp is Woodland Walk which has been sitting unopened in my stash, so it's made it's debut here. lol Everything else is self explanatory I think.

These challenges are doing me good because I struggle to use both the criteria the girls at Sunny Challenges require for an entry. Thanks ladies.

OK, I'm off to make another card that Jean and I set ourselves this morning. Can't not do it, as I suggested the idea of both of us using the same sketch to see what each of us would come up with. rofl

Enjoy the rest of the day everyone.

Sunny Challenges 002/11 Friends 24-7

2011-08-09T18:07:00.002+10:00

This week on the Sunny Challenges blog, once again it's a sketch plus you have to use the stamp set Friends 24-7. Well believe it or not, I have had this set for some time but it hadn't been inked. Just like last week's challenge stamp set, Inspired by Nature.

I deviated a touch from the sketch by adding my favourite seam binding/lace bow which I dyed using blushing bride reinker secured with an antique brad. I didn't distress this card because I liked the soft and pretty colours like they were and I was a bit limited with what I could use re stamp sets. I suppose that's why they call it a challenge...right?

Thanks for visiting my blog and hope you all have a good night.

Sketchbook Saturday Challenge 11

2011-08-07T10:56:00.000+10:00

Yes, I know I'm too late for this challenge but I loved the sketch. Here is my card using this sketch. I had a ball making this. The seam binding I dyed using Riding Hood Red reinker, but I should have worn gloves. You should have seen my hands. rofl My nails still have a red tinge.

OK, well that's if for today. I'm off to work this afternoon at the tourist centre so had better get ready.

Take care everyone.

Create With Connie and Mary Colour Challenge 161

2011-08-06T16:50:00.001+10:00

When I saw the colour challenge on Create With Connie and Mary this week, I just loved it. Once again, one of the design team cards is my inspiration. I really like the layering and use of newsprint Lisa did for her card. Thank you Lisa.

The sketch I used is one from My Favourite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge on SCS. I've changed the orientation of it though.

All products used are Stampin' Up.

Thanks for visiting my blog and hope you've had a wonderful day crafting.

Create With Connie and Mary Top 3 Picks

2011-08-04T11:03:00.000+10:00

Wow, I'm so excited. I was chosen for one of the top 3 picks on the Create with Connie and Mary Challenge blog. Thanks so very much for choosing my card.

Daffodil Delight Meets Newsprint.

2011-08-03T17:16:00.000+10:00

I cut two lots of card stock and dsp when I was creating my Sunny Challenges card entry so this is card is using the second lot of bits. This time I used Just Believe and added Daffodil Delight wide striped grosgrain. I don't think it looks too bad. Well, it's made now. lol

Hope everyone had a wonderful day crafting.

Sunny Challenges First Challenge

2011-08-01T07:27:00.000+10:00

There is a new challenge blog in town!!! Sunny Challenges and Creations. For their first challenge we had to use the sketch provided AND use the stamp set Inspired by Nature!!! Eeeekkk. I think the sketch and the stamp set lend themselves to a DL card but as I can't display DL cards in the Tourist Centre very easily, I made my card the normal A5 size.

Card stock is basic black, crumb cake, very vanilla with Newsprint dsp for a couple of layers.

I've replaced the centre panel in the sketch with wide striped grosgrain ribbon. The image was stamped off once to try and create a shadow effect and I've stamped the smaller images of the flower stamp. Pearls and an antique brad gathered bow finished off.

I'm undecided whether I'm happy with this card or not but it's made now so we'll see how it goes. lol

The retired list is out so there is much excitement amongst Aust/NZ demos today.

I'll have a look at it later. Have to go out this morning.

Enjoy your day everyone.

Create With Connie and Mary Sketch Challenge 160

2011-07-30T16:52:00.002+10:00

This card came about because I saw this picture on the Moxie Fab World blog which I used for my colour inspiration and Renee's design team card for this week's Create with Connie & Mary challenge.

Here is the result. I used very vanilla, early espresso and baja breeze card stock teamed with Springtime Vintage dsp, Subtles dsp and Botanical Gazette dsp. The stamp sets used were French Foliage, Silhouette Sentiments, Clearly For You and Nature Walk. The butterfly from Nature Walk was stamped in early espresso and then lightly water coloured with baja breeze ink.

Most of the edges were given the distressed treatment with my distressing kit which I think is great.

Some lace onto two punched borders gave a little bit of detail as per the sketch.

There's not much more to say other than I did try out a new (to me) idea I saw on Patty's blog which is to combine different buttons and accessories to make something completely different and so cool I reckon.

So I layered my antique brad onto my early espresso button and then wrapped the prongs around my scrunched seam binding and hey presto, something a little bit snazzy. lol I do really like those antique brads and the vintage trinkets. Think I've said that before. rofl

So do you like my card? I hope someone likes it enough to buy it!!!!
Take care all and have a good night.

Gabrielle Butterfly

2011-07-30T07:59:00.000+10:00

Once again using Bo Bunny Gabrielle papers I made this card. Actually it's a case from one of Sharon's card at Stamp Simply. The teal card stock is Bo Bunny's double dot with matches the papers exactly. The ribbon banner I absolutely love, so easy to use. Stampin' Up very vanilla seam binding was scrunched into a bow and secured with flowers. The teal velvet ribbon is so yummy.

OK, must get on and hopefully today will get some more cards done. I do have one half made so will get that finished too.

Enjoy your day everyone.

Watermelon Gabrielle.

2011-07-29T07:25:00.000+10:00

I had been saving this Bo Bunny Gabrielle paper pad until I had more matching ribbons and accessories to go with it but just couldn't resist making this card after seeing Sharon's latest creation.

It's pretty self explanatory really, just very vanilla base, with matching coral double dot c/s for the next layer. Watermelon lace and very vanilla SU satin ribbon with a antique brad, roses and some punches leaves finished off the right hand corner. The greeting is a SU one which I 'found' the other day in amongst my stamps. I then split the flourish and adhered it to top and bottom of the greeting.

Thanks for visiting today.

Another Day in Paradise!!

2011-07-28T08:36:00.001+10:00

This card is a case from one that Jacki Topa made here. I loved her card and I'm fairly happy with what I managed to make.

My card is smaller than Jackie's because I just used our cardstock and metric measurements.

Unfortunately my cat has a big backside, I think he's been sitting at that window a long time. pmsl Now that I'm looking at him I wish I could have made him with the proper punches, oh well, not to worry.

The greeting is one I've had in my stash for some time and this was the perfect card to use it on.

Don't anyone go running away with the idea that making this card was easy....it was not!! I spent some time getting those white rectangles reasonably even then when I stamped the image, it wasn't clear enough. I had to start again!!!! gggrrrrrrr
I have had an idea of how to perhaps make it easier for myself with those windows but I'll try that some other time.

My sponging leaves a lot to be desired but I was not going to do those blessed rectangles again. lol

All done eventually and I love the card. Wouldn't mind doing him again one day if we got the Blossom Builder punch out here.

My girlfriend pounced on this card for her husband's birthday. So I'll wait and see what our new catty brings before I attempt another one.

Thanks so much everyone for visiting my blog and leaving comments. Love them all.

Motorbike on Navy & Orange.

2011-07-27T08:55:00.000+10:00

Stampin' Up's a la carte Motorbike stamp is perfect for those male cards. This card uses the now retired Travel Journal dsp. I was at the time making another motorbike card and had this piece of embossed silver card leftover. So to use it up I made this card. Simple but reasonably effective I thought. The cord at the bottom belongs to my camera and isn't part of the card. Can't take the photo again 'cause I don't have the card anymore. Wish I'd realised at the time.

Have a wonderful day everyone and thanks for visiting.

More Vintage!!

2011-07-26T15:15:00.009+10:00

I became an admirer of Joanne Leddy, Creative Stamping Ideas, when I stumbled across her blog from several sources in my blog hopping around times.

I love the way this lady can mix and match papers, colours, ribbons and embellishments, things that I wouldn't think of putting together, to make a fabulous piece of artwork.

When I saw this card, I thought, wow, fancy putting the black spot with those papers but it works!!

Here are my attempts to recreate Joanne's card.

My cards have extra layers on them, and use a die cut doily die instead of crochet. In the centre of the flowers are SU Antique brads. I did dye the seam binding with So Saffron reinker with a few sprays of pearl glimmer mist. The hand made flower is liberally coated in pearl glimmer mist...love this stuff. The cardstock is very vanilla, pale plum (retired) and so saffron. The so saffron dsp is some that I had put away and I can't even tell you which pack it's from. Long gone I think.

The images are from a gorgeous vintage set from Crafty Secrets which I stamped onto very vanilla and lightly water coloured with pale plum, so saffron, pear pizzazz and soft suede. I distressed the edges with tea stain ink from the new SU distressing kit. Am loving this kit.

Once again, my sewing machine came into use and overall I'm really happy with the results.

This morning I went to the Tourist Centre to book some cards in and before I could get them into the display racks, one of these cards below had sold. Great hey? I was so pleased.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day or what's left of it.
Take care and thanks for visiting my blog.

ETA: I must apologise for the quality of the photos. I took them at night and the editing program didn't lighten them as much as I thought it would.

Botanical Gazette Bird Cage

2011-07-25T10:17:00.000+10:00

Once again my card isn't a new idea. I cased this one from Jo Dumbleton, a SU demo in the UK.

My bird is different, so is the bird cage and I felt I didn't need a greeting on my card. I used the same papers but unfortunately my music wheeling certainly isn't as straight as Jo's. Not to worry. The bird cage die is a Marianne one.

Yep, you've guessed it, I don't have this card either anymore. lol

So will have to get in and make something similar but different for the Tourist Centre.

Enjoy your day everyone.

Vintage Crafty Secrets Bird

2011-07-24T11:32:00.001+10:00

Good morning everyone. This card was my first attempt at the vintage look. Linda Coughlin alias The Funkie Junkie was once again the source of my inspiration. I used her sketch on this card but changed the elements, colour etc. I was absolutely stoked with the way it turned out. Once again, I hand dyed cotton crinoline and tulle with glimmer mists to make the flowers. Tutorial on Linda's blog. The antique brads and safety pin are from Stampin' Up and I love them.

The cardstock is Stampin' Up and so are the papers except the music one which came from my stash.

This card has machine sewing on some of the layers and I'm quite proud that I managed to do it.
Before you ask, no I don't have this card anymore. It too was snapped up very quickly.

Thank you once again for visiting. Have a wonderful day.

Botanical Gazette Raspberry Card

2011-07-23T10:45:00.000+10:00

I have another card here that I made at Kim's craft retreat. This one uses a pattern that's on a sheet of paper from the Botanical Gazette dsp, I cased this card from Julie Marshall

who cased her card from Ilina Crouse. I stamped the raspberry stamp from Clearly For You onto another sheet of Botanical Gazette with Early Expresso, but stamping off a couple of times first.

Then the three little birds out of the same set was stamped in the right hand corner using Cherry Cobbler. A double row of the Stampin Up lace with Cherry Cobbler seam binding was added along the middle. A scrunchy bow secured with a gorgeous Antique Brad was the finishing touch. Once again çause I like layers I added an extra layer of Very Vanilla cardstock. The greeting is from a Stampin Up set and if anyone knows which set it is I'd be very grateful if you would let me know çause at the moment I'm blessed if I do and it's rolling around loose without a home. lol

I have to make another of these cards along the same lines çause once again I could have sold this one twice over.

Thanks for visiting my blog and have a wonderful day.

Strength and Hope

2011-07-21T12:25:00.002+10:00

I decided I would purchase this Stampin' Up stamp set while the Strength and Hope campaign was still current. It finishes on the 31st July. For each Strength and Hope stamp set that Stampin' Up sell, they will donate $2 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF).

These cards I made after seeing this card by Lianne Carper. I used the same sketch but added another layer of cardstock (love layers), pearls on the butterfly and did my seam binding/lace differently. The Antique Brads in our current SU catalogue are gorgeous to use as are the Vintage Trinkets currently on a carry over flyer.

My Rich Razzleberry version of Lianne's card used some retired pale plum cardstock and ink.

I don't have these cards anymore, they were snapped up very quickly so will have to get in and make some more versions.

Thanks for visiting today.

Vintage Crafty Secrets Card

2011-07-20T14:16:00.001+10:00

Back again. Last week I received these gorgeous vintage images in the mail from one of my favourite spots to shop...Sharon's Stamp Simply Store.

There are 6 images in a pack and they are all different. I've also been wanting to try making my own flowers out of crinoline and tulle...like these and these that Linda, the Funkie Junkie makes.

The card that I used for inspiration is this one here by Linda.

There is a mixture of papers here but the cardstock is from Stampin' Up.

A new toy, the doiley die, was a joy to use.

The seam binding, crinoline and tulle were dyed using glimmer mist.

Another thing I've been wanting to try, is machine sewing on my cards so I gave that a go too.

The person it was made for is extremely happy with the result of my work.

Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day.

Craft Retreat

2011-07-20T13:54:00.001+10:00

OK, well I'm back again. A couple of weeks ago Kim had one of her retreats in Brisbane at Brookfield. I love these retreats. They are soooo much fun.

Here is a photo of part of the room we were in. Lots of craft stash and lots of crafting happening.

The last two photos are of our table, Jean, Jane, Vicki, Venessa and I. As always Kim does a wonderful camp and has lots of goodies for us, make and takes, lucky door prizes and challenges.

I came home from this camp with so many cards made and some that were nearly finished.

Very productive weekend.

I'll be back shortly with a vintage card I've managed to make.

Explanation and Wedding Cards

2011-06-19T12:20:00.002+10:00

Here I am at long last. Now where have I been....well April was a bit of a write off with working around Easter time. Also about that time a friend of mine was coming once a week to my place to make cards, so I was busy doing kits for her to make while she was here. I was doing challenges still but by the end of April I was a bit had it.

The beginning of May saw me in Melbourne at the SU Convention. I went down a few days earlier to do the tourist thing and enjoyed myself immensely.

This year's convention was the BEST!!! We had a fabulous time and I can honestly say this year was the first time that I gained something out of every class, wow and stage demonstration. Absolutely brilliant.

We are all sooooo proud of Kim Gavarra, our team leader for being Number Two SU Demonstator in Australia. Way to go Kim.

It took me a week to get over Melbourne, so tired but this year, not deflated like I've felt after other Conventions, but elated, keen and rejuvenated.

Next year's convention is once again in Canberra.

May also saw the beginning of our cold weather and this year, it is colder than other years because of the real 'wet' season we had.

I started making a few cards but was just enjoying being home for the rest of May.

The beginning of June, Jenny had to go away so I worked again for a few days.

Unfortunately, it also the dreaded flu season too and a couple of weeks ago I came down with a bit of a bug...not really bad thank goodness but still felt blaahhh. lol

I think that's all over now and thankfully am feeling much better.

It was the Queen's birthday weekend on the 11th, 12th & 13th June and my son came up from Toowoomba for a visit. Wonderful to see him but his visit only last a few days çause he had to go back to work.

My challenge participation has been lacking but I have been making cards. These two wedding cards were cased from a card that I saw on Julie's blog. Thank you Julie.

Right, I think that's it for an update. I'll be back with more cards that I've made tomorrow.

Take care everyone.

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge

2011-04-20T14:13:00.003+10:00

Once again I'm cutting it very fine for the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge. This week it's a sketch. I used the Stampin' Up set Just Believe with Sahara Sand, Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze as my colours.
When I started this on Sunday I wasn't too happy with it but after not looking at it for a couple of days, I'm liking a lot more now.
I have to go back to work so this is very short.

Edited to add: The sponged circle focal point with the Just Believe set was an idea I saw on a card and I'm terribly sorry I can't remember whose card was. The original card was blue and green tones, if anyone knows who I have to give credit to please let me know. Thanks so much.

How Cute?

2011-04-16T15:17:00.005+10:00

I found some absolutely gorgeous little chicken 3d's in my local papercraft shop and thought they would go perfectly with some papers I had in my stash. One of Sharon's kits actually. So using Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge 111 I made this baby card. I'm so happy with the way it turned out. The cardstock I used is Stampin' Up Confetti White, Old Olive, So Saffron and Blushing Bride. Perfect matches. The little saying out of Nursery Necessities with some pearls finished the card off.

Thank you to the 4 Crafty Chicks once more who selected my card as one of the three Golden Egg award winners. I always get so excited if I get selected and certainly gives one a boost. Thank you.

Today has been tidy up day after a fortnight of having relatives popping in and out for visits. My girlfriend who has been visiting on a Saturday has gone away so I've cleaned up from all the crafting Saturdays we've had. Then I went through my cardstock scraps and sorted them out this afternoon, so that's another job done. Next thing is to do this week's 4 Crafty Chicks challenge which is a sketch.

Thank you once again for visiting my blog and all the comments you leave. Very much appreciated.

Inspiration Picture and a Sketch

2011-04-13T12:32:00.004+10:00

Well I will say this week's challenge on 4 Crafty Chicks was a real challenge. This week we were given an inspiration picture....here. I'm not really very good with inspiration pictures so here is the result of my labours and I must say that I'm only getting in by the skin of my teeth. I used The Sweet Stop sketch for this week number 103. Instead of the sentiment I've added flowers and as an extra embellishment..pearls. Stampin' Up's Marina Mist and Blushing Bride went perfectly with these papers.

I've been missing in action for a bit. The last week has been quite busy here with work, relatives visiting and funerals. Thanks for visiting and hope you like my card.

My Buttons Made It!!!!!

2011-04-07T12:43:00.002+10:00

Thanks so much to the ladies from the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge. I have won another Golden Egg Award. Woo Hoo, very exciting. The card, which is the one with the buttons inspired by Heather Summers, is so different to my usual style. It was good to have a change and make something different. Thanks again to the 4 Crafty Chicks. Enjoy your day everyone.

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge - A Recipe!!!!

2011-04-01T16:03:00.006+10:00

The challenge for this week on 4 Crafty Chicks is a recipe - 1 ribbon, 2 dsp, 3 buttons. I've been working on this card for a day or so and when I saw the recipe challenge, well I couldn't believe it. It was the same as I had been fiddling with. So here it is, in all it's glory.

I saw on Heather Summers blog how she used these designer big buttons, so that's what I decided that would be the focal point of my card, thank you Heather.

As at yesterday, 31st March, this card could have been called, Past, Present and Future. The chocolate chip grosgrain - past, Sweet Summer stamp set - present, buttons and dsp Sweet Stitches - future.

I know this card is not my usual style but the sketch seemed to fit what I wanted to do. The sketch I used was Inspirational Card Sketches 107.

Thanks to the team at 4 Crafty Chicks for the challenge. It's still raining here. Have a good day everyone.

Love Letter Eyelets

2011-03-28T18:03:00.006+10:00

This week on 4 Crafty Chicks the challenge is to dig deep, dig real deep in our stash and use eyelets. Mmmm well, I did have to dig deep çause I had never bought Stampin' Up eyelets, by then, I was over eyelets. Well I think I've risen to the challenge. I used a sketch I saw on a challenge by Our Craft Lounge that I really liked.

Once again I've used the Love Letter dsp. For the sentiment I used a stamp from the set Perfect Punches. I stamped the sentiment minus the flourish, cut out the oval, then matted it on black punched with the wide oval punch. Yes, I know it's on an angle but I liked it that way. The sketch just had a button on it but I tried it and didn't like it. So the bow with button got the tick of approval. Light Riding Hood Red sponging around the Eiffel Tower panel and the sentiment oval blended the colours in a bit better rather than stark vanilla on black or red.

That's it I think. Yes, two posts in one day but tomorrow is out for crafting. I have to go to town in the morning then work in the afternoon.

It's been raining all day here and I mean rain not drizzle, real wet season rain. It was the same yesterday and Saturday was a bit grey too. They reckon it's going to continue for a few days yet. Oh dear, paddling around the slush of the back yard....yuck. Can't do anything about it though and I would rather rain than drought. Thanks for visiting and hope you like my card.

Love Letter for Connie & Mary

2011-03-28T13:01:00.007+10:00

I've been following the Create with Connie and Mary challenge blog for some time but this is the first time I've actually entered a card for it. Below is the sketch for this week, CCMC143.

This is the card I came up with for this sketch challenge. I hope it qualifies, çause I've made a square card but kept the essential elements of the sketch still. Well I think I did anyway.

I used Love Letter dsp which at the moment is copping a flogging çause now that I've decided I liked it, I have to use it. Instead of the sentiment in the sketch I've added a flourish from Baroque Motifs, black embossed to give a bit a depth and texture (hmm not that you can see that in the pic). The butterflies are from the Sale-A-Bration set Bliss and the circles they are sitting on were punched out of the motif in Artistic Etchings. I lightly sponged around the edges of the punched scalloped oval and circles with Riding Hood Red ink to take off the starkness a bit. I absolutely love my Well Scripted set and use it a lot. Black satin ribbon, pearls on the bow, butterfly bodies and greeting finished this card off.

I think I've covered everything, hope you like my card and thanks for visiting today.

Lap of Luxury Thank You

2011-03-24T11:14:00.002+10:00

I saw this card by Teneale Williams and decided that this was exactly what I needed to make a commissioned Thank You card. I have changed the colours and papers but used the same stamp set, Bliss out of the current Sale-A-Bration catalogue. I also wanted to try a little trick that Jean pointed out to me on Heather Summers blog. After reading Heather's blog, I understand that this tip came from Mary Fish. You punch the Decorative Label Punch and then feed it back into the punch and cut again when you've got the little knobs on the end even.

The stamped background I used is something that is very popular at the moment, making a picture and then embossing it with the Square Lattice EF. Squashes it all down and melds it together so to speak.

The little Thank You is out of the Teeny Tiny Sentiments set.
Hope you like my card and thanks for visiting today.

Another Golden Egg Award

2011-03-24T11:08:00.002+10:00

Wow, guess what? I've won another Golden Egg Award. I usually can't win an argument so winning this award along with the two other ladies is so exciting. Thanks so much to the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge blog.
Enjoy your day everyone.

Late Elegant Soiree

2011-03-23T07:58:00.003+10:00

I saw the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge 106 and this card by Vicki Burdick. I used Vicki's card as inspiration for my own card. Thanks Vicki.
Just about all Stampin' Up supplies. I'll be sorry to see the lace go which is in the current mini catalogue. Hope they bring it back in the new main catalogue in September.
Anyway, thanks for visiting and hope you all have a wonderful day.

Love Letter Challenge

2011-03-21T20:54:00.003+10:00

The dsp Love Letter from Stampin' Up was one of the new toys I received last week so I just had to get in and use it for this weeks 4 Crafty Chicks sketch challenge. I've had Artistic Etchings since the new catalogue was issued but hadn't used it. For some reason, parts of this card came together well and other parts didn't. I think I'm happy with the end result. Too late now. lol

For the panel on the black punched piece I actually stamped the motif from Artistic Etchings along the dotted lines of a piece of Love Letter dsp. The main image panel background was stamped using En Francais in Riding Hood Red ink, but after I'd stamped off twice. The large oval and decorative label punch has been used for the sentiment with the butterfly out of the Sale-A-Bration set Bliss sitting on the corner. Pearls for the butterfly's flight path, along the stamped motif panel and on the main image panel are from Stampin' Up. Both sentiment and main image have been sponged using Riding Hood Red ink.

Hope you like my card and thanks for visiting.

So Excited!!!!!

2011-03-17T13:19:00.002+10:00

I won one of the Golden Egg Awards on the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge blog. Absolutely over the moon, just couldn't believe it. Thanks so much to the DT for choosing my card for one of the three winners. Congratulations to the other two ladies.
Also many thanks to everyone who commented on my card. Very much appreciated. To all who wanted my 'cleaning up craft room skills', sorry, but I've now run out of puff. rofl
To Jane, who cheekily told me to go and make a mess in my clean craft room, I'm doing that now by doing up some card kits and making a card for Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday sketch challenge.
Have a happy day everyone.

The 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge

2011-03-16T15:09:00.003+10:00

I've had this card half made for a week or so but was inspired to finish it when I saw the 4 Crafty Chicks Colour Challenge for this week. So here it is, a card using Concord Crush, Pretty in Pink and Basic Grey.

For the last 3 or 4 days I've been cleaning up my craft room, reorganising and throwing out.
When Stampin' Up released their new colour groups I didn't get around to reorganising my cardstock, inks, pens etc. Well it's been driving me crazy. So now it's done. All my stamps have been culled and what is left is sorted into groups like wordings, flowers/nature, seaside, male etc and then into alphabetical order. I can then go to any of the catalogues over the past years, mainly this year though and find exactly what I'm looking for.
Anything that I'm not using at the moment, like Christmas, are all in Dean's old room. I hope no one wants to stay in a big hurry. rofl
The spare washing machine is currently residing in there too as well as Charlie's exercise bike.

So now I'm all ready to craft but I don't want to mess up my tidy room. lol

Enjoy the rest of your day everyone.

Time is Valuable!!

2011-03-10T11:28:00.004+10:00

I had a girlfriend visit me on Saturday. We had a lovely time making cards. This is one of them. Margaret wanted to make a male card so using SU Black and Not Quite Navy and Cajun Craze as an accent, this is what we came up with. I can't find the sketch we used but when I do I'll edit this post.
It's been a very busy week and I've still got a mail run to do tomorrow then I'm free again. lol
Enjoy your day everyone.

Horses!

2011-02-26T14:48:00.003+10:00

I went up to Sarina this morning to the hairdressers and while I there I was asked to make a male card for a bloke who is into horses. Nardia needed it by Tuesday and as I'm going away on Monday to Toowoomba, it had to be done today. So I came home and got straight into it. Fortunately I knew what the stamp set and the main paper would be, just had to match them up with cardstock.

I used a base of SU black, then Soft Suede with a layer of River Rock neutrals dsp. A circle of Soft Suede neutrals dsp went on top of that. The dp I pulled out of my stash was my main focal point with the horses so I layered it with River Rock and Black for the panel. Then I stamped the horses with black versafine on Confetti White. The Whisper White was too stark. I sponged around the edges with Soft Suede and layered it with the Black and Soft Suede.
The original sketch I used was a square one and had the image panel centred, but by the time I was finished, the card looked nothing like that sketch I'm afraid.
I was toying with the idea of using a circle of string or something similar for an embellishment but came across some flat black leather thonging that was in my stash and thought..perfect. So the leather with the black brads finished off my male horse card nicely I reckon.

The card has now been delivered and Nardia is very happy with it.
Hope everyone is enjoying their day or night as the case may be.
Thanks for visiting.

The Sweet Stop - Think Spring!

2011-02-24T19:15:00.004+10:00

I liked the latest The Sweet Stop sketch challenge, this week with a spin...Think Spring. Well I'm not sure whether my cards qualify or not but I did use the Graphic 45 Springtime papers. I think for once I wandered a little bit in my interpretation of the sketch. My base card is SU Confetti Cream which compliments the papers. The pink and aqua cardstock is Bazzill out of my stash. The Hope stamp is from a set that I received for my birthday from Jean which is one that I really love.
Actually looking at these cards again now, I am quite chuffed with them.
It's nearly my bedtime here because I have to be up at 4am to go and sort the mail. Hope there's lots of parcels for me. lol
Hope everyone is well and thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and commenting. Love reading them.

Jazmyne for The Sweet Stop sketch.

2011-02-23T17:23:00.006+10:00

I've had this gorgeous paper since I went to a craft camp at Mt Tamborine last year. When I first saw it, I knew I just had to have it. I think the shop had the whole line at the time but I liked the glitter stripe and the glitter floral the best. Just recently I was shopping online and found these absolutely gorgeous velvet flowers. As soon as I saw them, I thought, they would go fabulously with these papers, so I purchased them too. lol
Well as you can see, they do match really well.

Yes, I realise you are probably sick of seeing these calendar easel cards but I've enjoyed making them and do have a few more calendars left to use up. This one uses The Sweet Stop sketch 95.
I dyed the seam binding myself with glimmer mist. I'm just not sure whether I'm using this seam binding the correct way. To my mind, the loops etc should be a bit messy but I just can't seem to get it that way. A very kind friend sent me the gorgeous glimmer brads from Stampin' Up, they are just the right purple for the papers. Yummy.

This was posted on Friday to Jean so I hope it has got to her safely.

Thanks once again for visiting my blog.

Elegant After Five for Jean.

2011-02-19T09:48:00.002+10:00

While I was at Robyn and Sue's shop one day, Sue showed me this card she'd made up for class. I immediately said, I would like to do that one, so here it is. Just a smidge altered by adding some pearls. I absolutely love the silhouette image made by using a die. It's gorgeous. Whilst making it, I thought, this would be a perfect birthday card for Jean, 'cause I knew she loved these papers.
Thank you to everyone visits my blog and comments. All very much appreciated.

Two challenges in one!!

2011-02-15T16:24:00.005+10:00

Well this is very unusual for me, two challenges in one project. The sketch is from Friday Sketcher's Challenge 141. The other challenge I'd like to enter this for is the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge 105. This week the challenge is to use three different pattern papers. Well I've done that. The verse is stamped onto a linen look paper that is from the same collection as the other two papers I have used.

Once again I've made a Calendar Easel card. This one is for a friend of mine who used to go to our craft group in Mackay. Since Anne closed the shop I think Marg is a bit lonely. I thought maybe this card may cheer her up. Hope so anyway. I did go a bit berserk with the pearls but they are just so pretty, I couldn't resist. The flowers are out of my stash. The die cut border is using a new toy that I received yesterday. I just had to use it.

Well two posts in one day is enough from me. Thanks for visiting.

Webster's Pages Easel Calendar Card

2011-02-15T07:39:00.003+10:00

This is another in the series of calendar easel cards that I've made for the girls of our craft group. This one is for Judi. Her clock used these papers so this is the colour combo I've come up with. Actually I love the Bashful Blue with these papers. Same sketch as Heather's, it seemed easier that way.
Hope everyone is well and thanks once again for visiting my blog.

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 104

2011-02-13T19:24:00.004+10:00

Once in a blue moon I manage to make something for a challenge and today is that day.
Karen has this fabulous sketch on her blog...The Sweetest Thing. Here is my interpretation. I dyed the seam binding with Glimmer Mists and was it fun!!! I had a wonderful time. lol The pearl lace is out of my stash and I've been wanting to try it out on a card.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Enjoy your evening.

Birthday Trio.

2011-02-12T15:32:00.005+10:00

Last year I gave all the girls in our little craft group a clock for their birthdays. This year I was stumped until I came up with the idea of covering a box in the same papers as their clocks. The idea floated around in my head for a few weeks because I was trying to get out of using Mod Podge. In the meantime, I was going through some 3d's I had, when I discovered one that was exactly like the flowers on the Webster's Pages that had been used for Heather's clock. So that was the card and gift for her birthday this year taken care of. Then for my birthday, Jean sent me a calendar easel card which I loved. So having a pack of these little calendars myself, I immediately thought, right, I'll do each of the girls a calendar easel card using the same papers as were used for their clocks. One way of using up the little calendars.
The pictures below show the results of all my exhausting labour of the mind. rofl

The card uses a basic sketch just so I could highlight the papers and the 3d in the centre.
For the Calendar easel card I used a sketch I found here. I'm so pleased with how it turned out.

The box, well it's not very good I'm afraid, but at least I avoided using Mod Podge, which seems to get all over me and all over the paper and then makes a heck of a mess.
I didn't have a clue how to decorate it, I only knew that I wanted to use the same flowers as I had used on the matching clock. So together with not a lot of imagination I'm afraid, some velvet flowers, leaves, punched butterflies, pearl swirls and lace here is the finished box.
Hmmmm maybe I'll improve with practise as I have three more to do over the coming year...BUT joy oh joy, NO Mod Podge. lol
I see my OH is about to mow, so I'm off to get the clothes off the line.
Thanks for visiting and hope you like my latest efforts.

My Last Clock!!

2011-02-07T06:30:00.004+10:00

Here it is, my last clock. This one was made for a friend of mine who wanted a gift for her Mum. This is the result. Anna Griffin papers which are just gorgeous and Prima flowers mixed with flowers from my stash. Some charms and punched butterflies finished it off.
I'm off to Sarina soon for a craft get together with the girls. Thanks for taking the time to visit.

Second English Rose 'Case'.

2011-02-05T17:32:00.003+10:00

These are the other two cards I cased using a card by Debbie Olsen, same sketch, different papers. I did use the same nesties in the centre because they looked exactly right. The only thing I didn't do is the stitching around the edge. I do hope Debbie takes my 'casing' as a compliment, her work is beautiful. I certainly cannot do it justice.

With regard to Cyclone Yasi, well Mackay and further south like us here at Koumala, hardly a thing. There certainly wasn't the rain that we were expecting and the wind wasn't as bad as Ului. We didn't lose power, my brother did at Andergrove but as he's had a generator for years now, there wasn't a problem.
Actually we had more wind the next day than the lead up. Today there's been heavy rain on and off all day, one minute sun is out the next it's pouring. Strange thing the weather.
Right off to cook tea.
Thanks for visiting once again.

A 'Case' in English Rose

2011-01-29T15:21:00.003+10:00

I'm loving the English Rose papers from Kaisercraft. I 'cased' these cards from this card by Debbie Olson. The papers are different but the sketch is exactly the same. The simplicity of Debbie's card took my eye.
The flourishes look quite good I think but dear me, a bit fiddley to work with. There must be an easier way but I don't know it. lol
For some reason I feel the cards are missing something but I'm not sure what and yet, if there was anymore on them, I feel they would look over done. Mmmmm.....oh well.

Keeping an eye on the updates for Cyclone Anthony. It's probable that we'll get some rain.
Hope you like my cards and thanks for visiting today.

Versatile Christmas Cocoa

2011-01-22T10:37:00.002+10:00

I love using these Stamp It Yesteryear images. Stampin' Up's Soft Suede matches perfectly. My Christmas Cocoa dsp was still unopened mainly because I couldn't bear to use it but I was brave!!!!! I cut into it to make this male birthday card using the Yesteryear truck image.
I'm really pleased with how this turned out. I started out with a sketch but the finished card is nothing like the sketch. Oh well. The greeting is from the current SU set Curly Cute.
Thanks for visiting and hope you all have a wonderful day or night as the case may be.

Pyramid Boxes

2011-01-15T15:21:00.004+10:00

These are the Christmas pyramid boxes that I made for some of my Christmas gifts this year.
Here is where I found the directions to make these boxes. Very easy to follow.
I just used some SU Christmas dp from a Scrapping Kit that I had in my stash. I had cut the triangles before I realised that the stripes may not line up but the recipients didn't seem to mind.
It's been showering here as well as the sun being out so a mixed up sort of day.
Thinking of everyone affected by the devastating floods.
Thanks for visiting.

Oops...Coal Everywhere!!!

2011-01-07T15:07:00.003+10:00

We have two coal carrying companies in this area, one is Queensland Rail National who my OH (Charlie) works for driving coal trains and the other new comer to the scene is Pacific National.

Lateish on Christmas Eve PN had a little derailment. Charlie counted 15/16 wagons off when we went past on Christmas morning on our way to his parent's place for breakfast.
Of course being the opposing team, so to speak, we had to take some photos. These are all that we could manage on my camera before the battery went flat. Charlie got more on his camera.
Still it gives you an idea of the mess.

These two photos show the front of the train. You can see a loco after the last two wagons, well that's about the middle of the whole train. This part wasn't derailed.

Here is the beginning of the mess. That metal pole you can see that has fallen across the first wagon is what is supposed to hold the overhead power lines up to run the trains. We understand this wagon was empty (which it shouldn't of been) and had derailed further back up the line.
Where this derailment happened there is a set of points so when the derailed wagon hit these points, it's caused wagons behind it to derail too.

Three photos of middle of mess!!

Getting towards end of derailment.

The beginning of the end of the train that didn't derail. The Pacific National sign is very visible isn't it????? It made a change for them to be spotlighted by the media for once.

It was raining and overcast when these photos were taken, about 7am Christmas morning.

We weren't the only sightseers either, locals and tourists were stopping for a gawk like us. rofl

They didn't start cleaning it up until Boxing day because of the rain.

OK that's it from me for today. I have some Christmas projects to show so will put them up in the next couple of days.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and all the very best for the New Year.

Webster's Pages Christmas Cards

2010-12-13T17:43:00.003+10:00

Here are a few Christmas cards that I made using last year's papers by Webster's Pages. They are pretty self explanatory and yes, very simple but effective I think. Webster's Pages have gorgeous papers that are so easy to use for cards in this way. The I felt the two 'Believe' cards didn't need a greeting on the front, the paper saying it all. Rather than a 'Merry Christmas' on the pink silk card I really liked the 'Christmas Spirit' sentiment which seemed to blend with the paper, if you know what I mean.
It's been a relatively fine day here after all the rain we've had. Very very humid. Thank goodness for air conditioning.
I hope to have another clock finished for friend of mine by Wednesday afternoon. It's all catching up with me too fast, Christmas that is.
Hope everyone is well and thanks for visiting.

Snow Globe Ornament Cards

2010-12-06T16:51:00.005+10:00

These cards were made to accomodate the Yuletide Snow Globe stickers by K & Co and Vicki Burdick had the perfect card on her blog for me to case. I've kept to her sketch but have changed the punches, papers and colours. Please excuse the quality of the photos, I was in a tearing hurry this morning and had to get them photographed quickly. Two of these cards were orders and the girls bought the other two on the spot, so all four are gone. They were absolutely rapt with them because of the dual use, card and ornament.

The snowflakes were cut with different MS punches out of glitter cardstock.
Cherry Cobbler, Pear Pizzazz, Very Vanilla and the retired Ruby Red Stampin' Up cardstocks were perfect with these papers. The green cardstock is Bazzill.
The gold cord is unfortunately retired Stampin Up as well. I thought the bling added a bit of glitz to match the shimmer in the snow globes. Love that Petals-A-Plenty SU embossing folder.
I'm really chuffed with these cards and thank Vicki for her inspiration. Hope you like them too. Thanks for visiting.

Judi's birthday clock

2010-12-01T08:53:00.004+10:00

Yep, another clock, this time for my friend Judi. All the girls in our little craft group are getting clocks this year. Judi's is the last one. This time, instead of rubons, I used the stamps that Kaisercraft have out now. These stamps are the sayings that they used to have in rubons. I'm a little disappointed with how faint they look compared to rubons but I think that my Stazon black inkpad needs reinking. The papers are Websters Pages with flowers, charms and other embellishments from my stash.
Today should see the end of my other off the page projects so will get them on here as soon as I can.
Thanks once again for visiting.

Calisto Christmas cards

2010-11-30T08:40:00.004+10:00

Here I am everyone after quite a spell away from my blog. I have been creating as well as running my son here, there and everywhere. It's rained here practically every day this month effectively putting an end to the crushing this year. At the end of October I went away to a craft retreat. I had a wonderful time. Jean and Jane were there too as well as heaps of other girls that have been to these camps in the past.
We went shopping at Scrapbook City on the way to camp and I ended up with the Anna Griffin Calisto range of papers, embellishments and kits. I made these four cards at camp using my new stash. Had to finish them off at home çause didn't have gold pearls with me. They are very simple, easy cards but I love them. I've already sold two so will have to make some more.
I made quite a few cards at camp and even did a challenge which I don't usually do. Many thanks to Jane who ferried Jean and I around. Since camp, I've made another clock, and have nearly finished some other projects which I'll show as soon as I do get them completed.
OK my time's up. Many thanks for visiting.

Prima Clock

2010-10-24T14:00:00.005+10:00

I made this clock for my girlfriend Ilse. The papers are Prima which I managed to purchase from somewhere, not easy getting hold of the pretty Prima papers. While I was at the Brisbane craft show in June, I saw a bouquet of Prima flowers. I bought them on impulse and I'm very pleased I did. They were perfect for the papers, all I did was split the bouquet up into the different flowers. I was very very happy with this clock. So easy and the colours are gorgeous.
Thanks for visiting my blog, hope you are having a wonderful day.

Reindeer Christmas.

2010-10-21T14:47:00.003+10:00

Mmmm well I'm showing these two cards even though I don't feel that I've done very well with the sketch. I should have made square cards out of Card Patterns Sketch 86 but by the time I realised I had cut the dp and cardstock and couldn't waste it.

The papers are Basic Grey Jovial and the I used Poppy, Vanilla and Old Olive cardstock. The stamp is by Inkadinkado and doesn't have a name but I've had it since last Christmas.
You can see the glitter in the gold embossing which I thought looked good. Looking at one of the cards now, I can see that the panel is crooked. gggrrrrrr.
These cards have been in the making for 3 days and I'm sick of them. lol Please just imagine it's straight and even.

The ribbon is Stamp Simply ribbon from Sharon which I absolutely love.
I really think that this bug I've caught again has sapped my mojo and I really don't feel very motivated at all.
Then again, perhaps it's just worry over my son that's done it. Whatever it is, I want to be back to normal because I've only one week before Craft Camp and I've nothing prepared whatsoever.

Thanks for visiting and I do hope your creating skills are better than mine at the moment.

Owl Greetings!!

2010-10-15T13:54:00.005+10:00

I made this card using The Sweet Stop sketch number 77 for this week. Once again, I've only just made it for a challenge. Around the owl I did sponge some Antique Linen ink to lessen the white but it hasn't shown up very well in the photo. The owl is a Penny Black stamp and I've coloured him with copics (Kathy, does he look alright?). As usual I've pretty well followed the sketch to the letter. The poppy red piece I embossed with the SU folder called Petals-A-Plenty. Papers are the Jovial range by Basic Grey. I used Whisper White, Poppy Parade and Old Olive cardstock and the image is stamped on the Xpress it c/s that is recommended in Australia for Copic work.
The spray of flowers are some I had in my stash and looked quite good I thought.
For some reason I was loath to add anymore embellishments because I didn't want to take away from my owl and the gorgeous papers.
Hope you like my card.

Life is Beautiful

2010-10-14T08:38:00.002+10:00

Once again I used a card made by Ann Schach for inspiration for my own card. The papers are SU Lap of Luxury with Basic Gray and Very Vanilla for cardstock. The sentiment is a Just Rite stamp and so is the border. The butterfly is the Martha Stewart monach butterfly punch with a pearl from the new SU range. The rose/organza trim matches perfectly but unfortunately I can't remember where I purchased it.
Thank you for visiting my blog and taking the time to comment.

Up, Up and Away

2010-10-09T12:28:00.003+10:00

My friend's grandson is turning one very soon. I made this card for her to give to him. No doubt he won't ever remember but at least it will probably be in his scrapbook, well maybe. lol
He and his parents are visiting from the UK so the plane being a boy thing as well gave me the opportunity to use this cute Kaisercraft clear stamp set. It consists of the plane, the swirl and the words 'Little Man'. The papers are retired SU Sweet Slumber which are textured and with that cloud pattern were absolutely perfect for this card.
The sketch is from the Create 4Fun Challenge this week and I'm only just in time to enter it too, I think.
I pretty much followed the sketch to the letter and I used on of the design team's examples as a guide too.
The ink I used is Versafine, I tried to use the matching SU ink but dye inks a lot of the time won't work on the acrylic stamps, it beads and won't stamp a solid stamp properly. Versafine is fantastic for solid stamps. I love it.
OK, think that's it. Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy your day everyone.

Kick Up Your Heels!!!!

2010-09-29T15:42:00.003+10:00

I've made this card for the High Hopes Challenge 90. It's a sketch and I do like sketches. I've had this High Hopes stamp for a couple of months now but haven't been in the mood for colouring. Yes Kathy, I did try to use my copics but didn't have the colours I needed. So back to my good old faithfuls...Prisma Colour Pencils. Once again I've used Basic Grey Cappella paper. Love this stuff. lol I've followed the sketch pretty closely feeling that I wanted the image to be the focus not lots of embellishments. The doiley is cut from a Marianne Designs die, which I really like. Cardstock is SU Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Blush Blossom, Very Vanilla, Mellow Moss. The image panel was layered on a piece of Blush Blossom and I cut the Vanilla and Black pieces with Nesties. The border is a Martha Stewart punch called Deco Shells. Some Stamp Simply lace and velvet ribbon with Kaisercraft pearls finished off my card.

It's raining here once again with storms predicted. The power flickered a couple of hours ago and I see on the radar that Mackay and Sarina are getting the rain now. We had the storm about 11.30 and it pelted down.
Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my cards and taking the time for visit my blog.

Capella Birthday

2010-09-28T14:21:00.003+10:00

Here is another card I've made using the Basic Grey Capella papers. The sketch this time is Week 39 from Create 4 fun challenge blog. I changed the centre panel to an oval and added pearls to the bare side to liven the card up a bit. The stamp is a Posh Impressions one that if I remember correctly I won on ebay. Chocolate Chip, Blush Blossom, Mellow Moss cardstock from SU goes perfectly with these papers. I stamped En Francais on the Blush Blossom background to take away the blankness of the card. Gorgeous Stamp Simply ribbon and lace with a matching Basic Grey brad finished off my card.

I've had to order another 6 x 6 Basic Grey Capella pad because yesterday I cut 8 more card kits using this paper and you could say that my original paper pad is just about had it. lol

I'm entering this card in the challenge so I hope my added pearls and the oval centre pass muster.
Thanks for visiting my blog today and I do appreciate all your comments.

Birthday Music

2010-09-27T15:33:00.003+10:00

I'm pretty sure that this piece of music isn't Happy Birthday to you, but it's from the new SU paper called Newsprint. I put it with Black and Vanilla with some Lacey Circles and a Just Rite sentiment. Some gorgeous Stamp Simply ribbon with one of the new SU Antique brads down the bottom and a couple of EK Success punched swirls embellished with SU pearls and I was done.
My card was inspired by this card made by Ann Schach.
Thanks so much for visiting my blog and taking the time to comment.

Capella for 18th Birthday

2010-09-26T15:58:00.004+10:00

I've been itching to use my Basic Grey Capella kit but just haven't got to it. This card was the perfect excuse. My son tells me I'm not up to date but I certainly hope this card passes for an 18th girl birthday card.
The stamps in the middle are by Just Rite and I've used vintage pink velvet ric rac and Champainge silk for trims. The cardstock is Basic Black, Mellow Moss, Blush Blossom all from SU. The little doiley was cut from a Marianne Designs die which I absolutely love. The sketch is from Viva la Verve September Week 3 which I immediately knew I could use for this card.
I don't this there's anything else to explain but please feel free to email me if you want to know anything.

In the Lap of Luxury

2010-09-25T16:09:00.003+10:00

I decided that I would do two more cards using the same sketch as my previous post. This is one of SU new paper packs called Lap of Luxury. Very vanilla is the base card. I used some gorgeous Stamp Simply satin ribbon trim, crochet lace, wrinkled and silk ribbon for embellishments. Little roses on each bow finished them off. The sentiments are Just Rite stamps and at the moment, I'm using them a lot.
Thanks for visiting and hope everyone is well.

Halloween in Wonderland

2010-09-23T15:37:00.004+10:00

After seeing Sharon's cards and Michelle's cards I decided to try this sketch myself. I don't think I picked the easiest of papers to use and for a while I was stumped but here are the results. I'm reasonably pleased with them and for the moment, I've had my fill of Halloween in Wonderland. lol
I used Just Rite stamps for the sentiments and a kit that I purchased from Sharon. Flowers and some of the ribbon is out of my stash. The sentiment circles have been sponged with Distress inks.
The weather here is very grey and dismal. Raining or drizzling all the time and has been for the last two days. Not good for cane farmers trying to get cane off at the moment.
Enjoy the rest of your day everyone and thanks for visiting.

Male Mouse Tails

2010-09-18T06:39:00.002+10:00

I've had these images coloured for months, so decided to make them into cards. Both are intended for male cards but looking at them now, they are suitable for females as well I suppose.
Once again, sorry I can't give credit for the sketches çause I can't remember which ones they were. These cards have been made for a month or so. Cardstock is Bazzill and Core'dinations, dp from my stash as too are the brads. I think the Happy Birthday greeting is a Stamp It one and the Best Wishes is Hero Arts.
Have a wonderful day everyone.

Camouflage Owl

2010-09-16T16:48:00.003+10:00

I've seen lots of sorts of owls done with the new SU owl punch. Here's my owl, Camouflage Owl complete with 'giggle' hat. The papers are Kaisercraft and are a couple of years old, called Military I think. The embossed piece is to represent a tree and I used Tim Holtz's woodgrain embossing folder to the get the look I wanted. Then I swiped it over an ink pad. The sketch is one I found yesterday and now I can't remember where I saw it so I can't give credit. Sorry about that. The punched pieces for the hat were scrunched to give the look of a real giggle hat.
I would like to give credit to Lynn Pratt for her owls çause that's how I worked out how to put the hat on. Think that's it, thanks once again for visiting.